acclimate
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The team ultimately decided that in order to acclimate, they’d leave eight days before the game.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Another factor could be the sudden spike in temperature in mid-July, leaving the animals insufficient time to acclimate to the heat, Karaki adds.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
And he had to acclimate to a culture far from his home in Japan, and to do it with his baseball-mad country following along closely.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
As they acclimate to rural life, they’re embraced by a community that takes care of each other and the world around them, including the kind, furry giant who Mei names Totoro.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
She helped Enoch acclimate to living in the big city, since the noise, the buildings, the vehicles, and the people were all new to him.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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"Understanding how T. oblongifolia acclimates to heat gives us new strategies to help crops adapt to a warming planet."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2025
Roz is the reader’s proxy, an innocent who acclimates to the complex rhythms of the natural world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025
Lifetime cameras have followed Rose as she acclimates to freedom in a new docuseries, “Gypsy Rose: Life After Lockup” debuts Monday.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2024
The Jets signed veteran Trevor Siemian to the practice squad Tuesday, but Saleh said he’ll be inactive for New York’s game against Kansas City on Sunday night as he acclimates himself.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
So once he acclimates, Theo is overjoyed to be in Paris, the City of Light.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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You have to overlook a certain number of coincidences early on as Tom and Jake get acclimated to their new home, back in the town where Tom and his late wife grew up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Likho, who lives at the shop full-time, acclimated within a day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
There is no opening credits sequence, not even a single bit of pre-title exposition to get viewers acclimated to the characters or the setting.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026
"Extreme early-season heat coupled with high tourism rates will make this heat very dangerous, particularly for those not acclimated to the heat and/or traveling from cooler climates," the Las Vegas, Nevada NWS office said.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
Being born into it, raised in it, we become acclimated to the altitude, like natives in the Andes.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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Sean McVay’s experiment of not properly acclimating the team to the massive time change in Australia was a huge a risk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
But USC’s coaches were quick this week to note that the Trojans’ freshmen, no matter how talented, still had some acclimating to do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Sitting in unease and acclimating to its extreme temperature — refusing to fight our very nature — is one of the most impactful things we can do for our bodies and minds.
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2026
So after acclimating to the thin air near the summit, technicians began to dig the first of four holes, each 1 meter deep, with shovels and a handheld drill.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 2, 2024
Before beginning the mission, Dasch had argued furiously with Kappe that the saboteurs were to spend a few months acclimating and blending in before blowing up any of their targets.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
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